Georg Forster is not a major author in the Musaceae but, until his mention here, he has been a neglected one. Forster did little more than name 13 of the 16
bananas listed by Rumphius under the general heading Musa domestica; Rumphius gave binomial names to three of them himself. However, Forster was the first post-Linnean
author to assign names to Rumphius' bananas and has some small significance as a result.

Forster published the name as Musa coarctata but the use of the binomial does not mean that he thought the plant was a true species. In fact Forster
treated all 16 bananas as "varieties" of Linnaeus' Musa paradisiaca.